Anyone out there working in IT? I am trying to understand whether the fact that we have a slow network connection on the Singapore campus is a design problem, a load balancing issue or a mind artefact after too much sake. The problem is made worse when the Fonty folks get on their terminals and access the net. Is the Singapore campus slave in any way to the Fonty servers?

Imagine that in-between two e-mails you get an Outlook message telling that you must wait for the next half year while it is retrieving some data from some server somewhere. You type a mail message which you have to re-type again because some remote procedure call failed. As job search activity will start to intensify, or as my "projects" near completion date, my e-mail load increases and this little network discomfort is taking larger than desired proportions.
Surely, there must be a solution. Only thing that's left for "someone" to do, is go out and find it. And having to get up at 5am to get all your emails done before your classes and Fonty start of day can only be a temporary workaround.